| MaggieCarroll |
Posted on: 15-Aug-2006, 09:41 PM |
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The Committments ...quirky, rather dark humored, but very good... 
The Mysts of Avalon...refreshing feminine perspective on the myths...
The Quiet Man...nostalgic and has Maureen O'Hara...so it gets brownie points
The Sword in the Stone  ...my second favorite Disney flick...eternally a favorite of mine since youth...
Peter Pan...my favorite Disney movie...gotta love those Pan and the pirates
Robin Hood...with Errol Flynn...  ...best looking actor award
Ryan's Daughter...an oldie but goodie...
Gangs of New York...so violent, took me 3 sittings to watch...but I finished it  ....suspect it was quite historically on target...but was hard to watch...
Green Grows My Valley...a Welsh movie about coal mining...sad...
Circle of Friends...excellent...but the book is better
The Harry Potter movies... did you know that the birds of prey, like Harry's owl...are from the Avary on the grounds of Belvadere Castle located in the midlands of Ireland? Very haunting place...also home of the Jealous Wall...
The Molly Maguires...based on a true story of Irish immigrants in the mid 1870's, set and filmed in the anthracite coal region of northeastern Pennsylvania....entertaining but does not tell the tale with historical accuracy...Sean Connory, Richard Harris star...a must see if you are Irish American and do not know the story...then read "Making Sense of the Molly Maguires" by Kevin Kenny...did you know the Mollies were the pioneers of the labor movement in America?
TLOTR...  is there any doubt that Tolkien's Shire is based on Ireland and the Hobbits on the Irish?...then of course, there is Aragorn...sigh...
Angela's Ashes...have not seen the move...but the book is a must read...as is the follow up "'Tis"...Frank McCourt has a way with a story...
The Fighting Prince of Donegal...another Disney...oldie but goodie...
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Forum: General Discussion · Post Preview: #160836 |
| MaggieCarroll |
Posted on: 11-Aug-2006, 09:12 PM |
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Looking for Carroll, Creary, and Devlin clan...
Ancestors here since 1840's...
Settled in Carbon and Schuylkill counties of Pennsylvania
Could ye be Clan?
If so, tell me yer story! |
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Forum: Gathering of the Clans · Post Preview: #160349 |
| MaggieCarroll |
Posted on: 11-Aug-2006, 09:03 PM |
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Patrick's Day
'Tis Saint Patrick's Day
Across the sea
In the land Amerikay
But in Ireland,
March 17th
Is simply Patrick's Day
Tourists come in hoards
To Dublin City
Foreigners from afar
To tip their mugs of Guiness
These strangers
In our bars
Why do they come?
What is the draw?
Why flock to Erin's shore?
Ah, t'was once trouble
To be Irish
But nay,
My friends, no more!
For they all want to be Irish
If only for this day in spring!
They want to believe the blarney
In leprechauns and faerie rings
They want to dance a jig or two
Shed tears to "Danny Boy"
They all want to be Irish - and why not?
For to be Irish is a joy
How ironic such a turn around
So try not to take offense
After hundreds of years of bigotry
'Tis almost a compliment
So pin a shamrock on your shirt
Raise your glass with a "Slainte" loudly
But no matter how you choose to do it
Choose to wear your Irish proudly...
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For Dominic: A Belated Patrick's Day Post
Many things you say are true... 
But much is in the spirit of celebration
And naught is done in malice
We Irish American's worship Ireland
And we toast it with reverent chalice... 
Be tolerant of us Irish not privleged
On Ireland's soil to be born
Our ancestors had no choice, you see...
Do you know our hearts still mourn?
We mean naught by our foolish ways
We mean no degradation
But it is how our Irish American-ness
Was handed down, generation by generation
As for we women lovin' a man
On whose tongue the Irish dwells
We beg a pardon and mean no harm
So, love, mind you forgive us that as well...
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Almost half way to Patrick's Day 2007!
March in the famous Annual Girardville St. Patrick's Day Parade
The Saturday After Patrick's Day 2007
Hosted by the AOH Black Jack Kehoe, Division 1
Girardville, Pa., USA
County Schuylkill...almost Ireland
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Forum: Ireland · Post Preview: #160347 |
| MaggieCarroll |
Posted on: 11-Aug-2006, 07:46 PM |
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I took step lessons for several years
Along with my two daughters, Brigid and Terra
We had a great teacher, a lass named Una from Belfast
I learned alongside the wee ones
Which can be frustratin' for they pick it up
Much more easily than adults...
Just can't help but dance
When I hear Irish music... 
My girls rebelled and quit
After they discovered boys
Unfortunately t'was also
After the $500 Irish dance dresses
Which now sit in their closet
Me, bein' too old for the dresses
Is the only one who still dances
I dance all my steps almost every mornin'
My 7's and 3's, my hard jig,
My reels, my light jigs, etc.
Have done a bit of Ceili as well
But I can only remember all the parts
As long as I am dancin' them...
The Seige of Ennis feels like one
Until you get into the pattern
O but I love it...
Like the pipes...stirs the clan blood
I have both hard and soft shoes
Trained in both
But funny, peasant I am
I perfer to dance in bare feet
(As long as the floor is not too splintery...
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Forum: Irish Dance · Post Preview: #160340 |
| MaggieCarroll |
Posted on: 11-Aug-2006, 02:16 PM |
Replies: 82
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My name is MaggieCarroll, or at least when I am caught!
I was born in Baltimore -
Maryland, not Ireland
But raised a Coal Cracker -
In the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania
Which to most of us Irish
Is simply another county in Ireland
Ah, but I should have been born in the Olde Sod
For that is where my heart lies always
My dream?
To live in Ireland, of course
The foot of the Wicklow Mountains
Or maybe Donegal...
My family let in a few other ethnic groups 
Over the years, but my Gram never let us
Forget we were Irish
Come from Carroll, Devlin, and Creary stock
From the Irish midlands
And the north of Ireland
I am a writer, a poet, a singer
Suppose a bard of sorts
For my themes somehow all turn out
To have something to do with the Irish
Do some Irish step dancin' now and then
A wee bit of acting then and now
I belong to the LAOH, my husband Pat to the AOH
Propagators of the Irish culture in Amerikay...
In my day job, I have a master's in nursing
It has been payin' the bills for 30 years
For the last six, I have been a certified school nurse
Summers off!
It's when I do a lot of research for my novels
My first novel, the Pipes Are Calling
Will be published Spring of 2007
It is a historical fantasy that takes place
Both in Ireland
And "Molly Maguire" Country - the coal banks of County Schuylkill
(Pennsylvania, that 'tis!)
Any history buffs out there familiar with the miners known as the Molly Maguires? |
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Forum: Ireland · Post Preview: #160323 |
| MaggieCarroll |
Posted on: 11-Aug-2006, 01:46 PM |
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'Tis an old one, for sure
But I needed a quick visit
To the Old Sode
Yesterday, rewatched the "The Quiet Man"
Still makes me sigh - and cry...
Parts of it were filmed
In Cong on the West Coast...
How grande a place is Ireland
That fifty or so odd years later
Some of the same landmarks
Written in celluloid history
Were those I saw on my last trip over...
And grander yet,
That those landmarks were there
For centuries before that....
Such is Ireland...
I need to go back
Soon... 
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Forum: Ye Ole Celtic Pub - Open all day, all night! · Post Preview: #160322 |
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| MaggieCarroll |
Posted on: 09-Aug-2006, 09:42 PM |
Replies: 44
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Ancient rhythms
Heartbeat sounds
My soul no longer
Touches ground
Heels and toes
Batter clatter the floor
The sound enough
I need no more
The music curls
Through wooded glen
Lures me back
Way back to when
O 'tis more than I ask
All else does pale
The bodhran my heartbeat
This song is my tale... |
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Forum: Poems · Post Preview: #160052 |
| MaggieCarroll |
Posted on: 09-Aug-2006, 09:02 PM |
Replies: 241
Views: 141,676
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Dia dhuit!
I am MaggieCarroll, healer and bard
A gypsy of sorts, a reader of cards
A bodhran, a fiddle , a piper called
So along came I to greet ye all...::cheer
Mind ye,
'Tis no hardship to stay awhile
The music's grande
And the dance a smile... |
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